Mustafa Khattab – Q&A With The Students
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The speakers discuss the importance of finding a valid "-mediated" to avoid losing it and the use of "by the way" in praying. They emphasize the importance of praying for the good of humanity and serving humanity, rather than just praying for one's actions. The speakers stress the need for personal space and avoiding distractions during prayer.
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So,
I was going to talk
to you about another incredible person that I
met in the last couple of years.
So the computer is updating. It might take
another couple of minutes or maybe another couple
of hours.
Who knows?
So once it starts, we're gonna show you
the picture and we'll do the presentation. Until
then, I can answer some of your questions.
About the story we had yesterday or something
else?
Good questions. Okay?
Yeah. You will get
dates if you give the right answer.
If you got dates yesterday, don't raise your
hand. We'll we'll get someone new. Okay.
Okay. This is a good question. The question
is, if you sneeze in salah, can you
say Alhamdulillah?
Okay.
Who knows the answer?
Means your salah is not valid anymore, you
have to start all over. And the other
one is something that you say outside salah,
like you're not saying Quran or Sami al
Khawlih Something else,
but still your salah is valid. Like what?
Like if you sneeze
and say Alhamdulillah.
At Shanshu you say Alhamdulillah.
Because in salah you say what? Alhamdulillah, Ravilah
Alameen Ravah Alameen Ravah Alameen Ravah Alameen. So
Alhamdulillah
here is something you say.
Normally in Salaf.
Say for example,
you heard Quran and it says,
And you say Allahu Akbar in Salaf. Right?
Because Allahu Akbar is something you do in
salah, when you say Allahu
Akbar. If it says in the Quran,
You say,
Right?
This is what the Ayat says,
It's an order, and he says, Subhanahu wa
bi'il
'ala. Your salah is valid because you say,
Subhanahu wa'il 'ala.
You're
saying in sujood Subhanahu wa'il
'ala. If at the end of Surah Waka,
it says it says, says, rasabih Bismar al
Bukir alim, you say, subhanahu wa bi'alaim,
this is an ayah from the Quran,
so your salah is valid is valid.
So at the end of the day, if
you say something related to salah or a
verse or something that you read inside salah,
whether we're talking about Quran or, a dik,
your salah is valid. But say for example,
your brother is asking, well, okay, where are
the keys?
And you said, in my pockets.
You say, In my pockets in Quran,
or in Zikr, or something in Salah. It
has nothing to do with with the Salah.
Who
My sister did it. This is what you
said in salah. Right? Salah. Your salah is
not valid. It has nothing to do with
salah. You have to start all over again.
Right? Because it has nothing to do with
salah. So you can say, Alhamdulillah
because it's part of the salah,
and you'll get your dates.
But you already got it. Finally, so I
missed one.
Another good question.
Okay. If you're pulling and you have to
use the washroom, they can't use
it while you're praying, but then you just
have to use the washroom. Okay. If you
are inside the salah,
and you can't hold it anymore,
or you will explode,
and kill everyone.
If it's normal, fine.
Like, it's a little irritation,
you can continue salah, not not a big
deal.
But if it is so difficult for you,
you can hold it anymore,
and you're like, we're doing like this in
the salah.
People think you have a seizure or something.
It's very difficult. Then in this case, you
have to go to the washroom, do udu,
and when you come, you start all over
again.
Because you can't focus in the salah like
this. How
How would you gonna
ask this?
I have a question.
Yes.
How about if you're rushing to salah, can
you instead of washing your hands 3 times
and your face, can you do it once
each? Good question.
Dates? There's good dates. Sure.
Good name. Nabad Nabad.
Here you go. So the sister is asking,
like, you are in a rush. They started
this salah, and you want you want to
catch this salah? And, can you do wudu,
like, one time? You wash your hand one
time, your mouth one time, your nose one
time? Actually,
how many of you heard of a book
called Bukhari?
Bukhari Hadith?
Like, half of you.
This is the most important collection of
hadith. In in his book of hadith, there
is a title, there's some hadith, and there's
a title that says, the prophet
did once,
sometimes he did twice,
sometimes he did twice, 3 times. Which means
that sometimes
he washed his hands once,
his face once, his ears once, his feet
once.
Sometimes we did it twice, like he washed
his hands twice,
face wise, ears twice,
but most of the time, 3 times.
Why? Just to show us it is okay
to do it once, or twice, or 3
times. This is good. So it's acceptable. It's
a good question.
Okay. Good question.
Thank you.
So in the Quran, it says that Allah
created us.
The main purpose or actually the only purpose
He created us for is to worship Him.
So, the sister is asking,
can our service to humanity
be,
worship to Allah
We know in Islam, and all the scholars
of Islam agree,
that you cannot pray and pause and read
Quran 247,
every day, every minute. No one can do
this. You have to work, you have to
go to school, you know, you have to,
do different things.
So there are a Magari,
there are ritualistic
Ibadan, like fasting, salah, hajj, zakat, and there
are non ritualistic
Ibadan, like going to schools,
getting a degree to make people's lives easy,
whether you work as a teacher, an engineer,
a engineer, a
doctor, any job.
A chef, a cook, any job.
Right? So for example, if you go to
the YMCA
or the Hershey Center,
to exercise to have a strong body,
this is an act of worship if you
do it for a good intention. You won't
go there,
you learn taikondo
to bully people
at school. This is not a good intention.
Right?
You don't go to the masjid to pray,
so the people will say, Oh, he's a
good guy, masha'allah, I'm gonna marry him, my
daughter. No, this is not your intention. You
go because you like to pray.
If you,
say for example,
study something like to build roads, build hospitals
for other people to make their lives easy,
it doesn't matter if the person is Muslim
or non Muslim, you are serving humanity, then
you are getting the reward. And this is
why the Prophet
says in an authentic hadith,
The most beloved people to Allah are those
who are most beneficial to people. They serve
everyone.
Right?
And and if you look at the wording,
Allah says they are the most beneficial to
humanity. He didn't say to Muslims,
He says,
means
humanity, people in general.
So, if you do something to
Like, they pass in front of you or
they they step on your head?
Like this. Okay.
Yeah. So, like, say for example, you are
praying and someone tripped on you.
This is they did it by mistake, or
even on purpose. Like, you're praying and someone
does this to you, they step toward your
head or if they tripped on you, your
saw is valid to just continue your salah.
Right?
And and and even if someone passed in
front of you,
it's not a big deal. Yes, there are
hadith, the prophet said, don't pass in front
of people because
you'll distract their attention,
but even if someone passed in front of
you, it's not a big deal.
You need some, like personal space.
Like, you see the red color?
I'm standing here.
So that this is the whole this is
all the space I need in my salah.
Right? The green area. Right? So they pass
and they pass behind the red area, it's
fine.
But if they pass between the two red
areas, then they'll be distracting your attention. Why?
Because in salah where do you keep your
eyes in salah?
Down here. Down here where you make salah.
Right? So you're not listening to the ayat.
So they if they pass beyond the red
line, they're not actually distracting
your attention,
so if you are focused here. And even
if they pass in front of you, your
salah is valid,
the sin is is on them if it's
their intention
to distract you in the salah. Because we
should help keep people focused in the salah.
We should not distract them by enemies, by
your phone,
by talking,
by pushing them,
by poking them, and all these things. Right?
Dates? You didn't get his dates?
Your dates?
You wipe over? No. It's like a hose.
You basically wash it or you just wipe
over? We wipe you. Okay. Good. This is
the right answer.